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msandford
on Jan 12, 2015
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How strong would a magnetic field have to be to ki...
Not necessarily. Iron oxide is somewhat ferromagnetic but iron chloride is paramagnetic. So just having some iron atoms in something isn't enough to make it ferromagnetic.
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/questions/question/28...
Sharlin
on Jan 12, 2015
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Indeed, even stainless steel isn't necessarily ferromagnetic, even though it's mostly iron.
aaronblohowiak
on Jan 12, 2015
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Even very hot iron is not magnetic. (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie_temperature
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